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GW News: LAS VEGAS OPEN 2025

J.Logan said:
Wait .. Hold on... Was that it? That's not a road map, c that's a vague 'oh yeah, and stuff'. With the sights of the Chaos release, I was hoping that would mean the Empire and High Elf releases would be by the end of this year, maybe as a December release to finish off the year. And then for next year the road map should have revealed the intended first campaign book and a tease.

Wait... No mention of the wood elves or beastmen...? My gawd... This is not a roadmap... This is a doodle in crayon on a used napkin.
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Agreed. They gave out as little information as possible. Even if the release schedule was slow, I thought they would at least tell us when the remaining core fractions were scheduled to be released. Who knows when the Wood Elves will get their release. The TOW rollout has been terrible.

I'd say this entire Nova Open preview was underwhelming... but... CHAOS DWARFS!! !.gif
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/08/29/nova-open-preview-a-big-hats-off-to-hashuts-finest/
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J.Logan said:
Edit: I was sincerely hoping that all the core factions would be released by the end of the year, if for no other reason then to have all the armies available ASAP. I hate HAAATE the whole staggered faction release. I've said it before, but I hated getting the Seraphon battletome only for the new edition of AoS to be announced months later, while other factions got to enjoy years of their rules (errata notwithstanding). Was it really too much to ask for that when the majority of the models are older molds that we can get everybody tabled and arcane journal'd before the game hits a year?
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Tjah, GW wants those recurring revenues. And they decided this is the best way to spread out the revenue over the entire cycle....
Terrible for clients, but I guess the investers are happy.


NIGHTBRINGER said:
@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl ... not quite the roadmap we might have hoped for. A pretty lackluster TOW reveal...

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I thought the dwarfs and chaos had already been released? Why is that listed as still to come?
 
More freaking SCE; because of course that range needs to immeadiatly be bloated again.
They're nice looking models; but seriously, release something else. Or at least spread the models across factions a bit more.

If it makes you feel any better; the AoS roadmap is just as vague and just as absurdly staggered as the ToW one.
Apparently 2025 will release all factions? But then only shows destruction spearheads and death to be announced?

Who wrote these roadmaps?
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Okay, so we've established some sort of Old World release schedule...

  • Warriors of Chaos
  • Empire
  • High Elves
  • Wood Elves or Beastmen (probably Beastmen first so that we don't have back to back Elf releases)

It's not much I suppose, but better than nothing. And we've got @NIGHTBRINGER all happy with his Chaos Dwarfs :D
 
You won’t find points in your battletomes. These will be available online on Warhammer Community when each book launches, linked via a QR code in the book,
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I just really need that to sink in a moment. Did I miss something in previous battletomes? I admit I used battlescribe for any building, so maybe I missed points not being in previous battletomes?

But why remove points values from the battletomes? Why make it more inconvenient for players?

Or am I missing something? Did I just make myself look the fool by completely forgetting some detail?

Scalenex said:
I think their hats should be taller.
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Just beat up another Chaos Dwarf, take his hat and stack it, that'll put some extra height to your hat
 
J.Logan said:
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I just really need that to sink in a moment. Did I miss something in previous battletomes? I admit I used battlescribe for any building, so maybe I missed points not being in previous battletomes?

But why remove points values from the battletomes? Why make it more inconvenient for players?

Or am I missing something? Did I just make myself look the fool by completely forgetting some detail?
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Well, the AoS points change so often, in the grand scheme of things, that printing unit points in a battletome would be... ahem... pointless. :p
 
Just A Skink said:
printing unit points in a battletome would be... ahem... pointless. :p
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Boo! Be ashamed of that pun! As a skink you're meant to be far more creative than such a low hanging fruit! :-P

Problem is, even if the points change, having a printed base version that can still be used in the advent of a network outage or a game in a place with spotty wifi means, even if slightly less than ideal, at least there are points than can be used.

I like having my rules in a printed format so I can hand the book to the other player so they can read and verify things for themselves. Handing over my phone so they can squint at the PDF or the screen cap or what-have-you annoys me. I do not like letting other people touch my phone, pos that it may be.
 
Just A Skink said:
At last! Something that @NIGHTBRINGER can really get behind! I'm sure you have your own take on the models, but I think they are a pretty decent update of the classic look.
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I think they look quite good. They suffer a bit from copy & paste (especially the two pyromancers drinking), but a very cool team overall. A nice addition to Blood Bowl and as you say, a great update of the classic look.
 
Just A Skink said:
Well, the AoS points change so often, in the grand scheme of things, that printing unit points in a battletome would be... ahem... pointless. :p
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Sure; but it's rare for those changes to be significant enough for it to really matter outside of tournaments.
Plus, it gives a baseline to start with for new players.


J.Logan said:
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But why remove points values from the battletomes? Why make it more inconvenient for players?
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For the sake of vendor lock-in basicly.
The more you're dependent on their little systems and apps to do your thing, the less likely you are to switch to a competitor.
Plus, with some luck you can even convince your customers to pay extra for it....

Isn't the "everything as a service" business model just great?
 
Canas said:
The more you're dependent on their little systems and apps to do your thing, the less likely you are to switch to a competitor.
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*looks pointedly at my rulebooks for Kings of War, and the OnePageRules file on my PC*

Or I can swap to a ruleset where I'm not getting jerked around by the ones that made those same rules? How is it that people in positions of power become so braindead as to not register that consumers aren't idiots? Wait... don't answer that... it's positive reinforcement; they jerk the consumers and the consumers are still frothing at the bit to spend their moneys.
 
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